it's a magical world

So I finally managed to finish a fic! That's something, right? It's a well overdue Tosh gen fic for tw_unpaired, and I'm pretty sure it's going to be my last fic in the Torchwood fandom. Although I reserve the right to change my mind later, if the mood ever strikes me again. (I always hate when I move on from a well-loved fandom. There are always a handful of half-finished WIPs that I wind up leaving behind.)

Anyone willing to give this thing a quick beta? 3700 words, post-"Cyberwoman" Toshiko gen. Nothing special, but it's nice to finish something, and this is the first fic I've managed to write in nearly four months.

Completely unrelatedly, the production videos from beginning of "The Hobbit" filming? OH MY HEART. I didn't realize just how much I missed LotR. OLD FANDOM, REUNITE!

I'm bored. I mean, I am eternally grateful that for a short space of time I have had ACTUAL WEEKENDS, and I'm sure I'll be kicking myself this time next week when I realize yup, they're going away again for another few months. But I have no particular fannish projects holding my attention at the moment (still in post-Big Bang slump, though it still needs another round of editing once my betas have had a chance to slog through it) and nothing much to DO. I've watched another disc of True Blood, which finishes the first season. There are other shows I'm vaguely interested in, but none enough to seek out for download. And while I would love to curl up with my laptop and read good fic, I'm still in a Jack/Ianto frame of mind and I've spent the past month rereading just about every halfway decent fic for the pairing, and I want to read NEW fic. But that fandom's taken a bit of a hit since CoE, and even the CoE fix-it phase of fandom seems to have died down, at least for the moment.

And there is no new Doctor Who today. TRAGIC.

So instead I'll knock out a few more of the TV meme, since I am terminally incapable of posting on anything resembling a regular basis.


Day 19 - Best TV show cast

I freaking LOVE ensemble shows. TEAMS! The biggest downfall of Doctor Who, for my particular tastes, is that it focuses too tightly on the Doctor and the Companion. This is why I get so bloody excited about multiple companions, like Nine & Rose & Jack, or Eleven & Amy & Rory, and why for all of the many pitfalls of "Journey's End", I will love it forever for giving us all of those awesome people flying the TARDIS together. The TEAM! element of Torchwood is vastly more important to me than my shipping Jack/Ianto, and my biggest problem with CoE. But I digress, clearly. So: Whoniverse, basically out for this one.

THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD ENSEMBLE SHOWS, guys! I clearly cannot pick just one! Here, have a celebratory picspam of AWESOME TEAMS BEING AWESOME. ( ensembles FTW! )


Day 20 - Favorite kiss

I was going to say, there is no way I can narrow this down. And then maybe try to picspam you again. Because there's Mulder/Scully in "Millennium", and Nine/Rose in "Parting of the Ways", and Simon/Kaylee MAKING THE FUCK OUT FINALLY in "Serenity" (yes I know that's the movie, but it's just an extension of the show and it totally counts), and Stuart/Vince at Vince's birthday party, and and and...

But no. Look, I have a ship for every show, and every kiss is awesome. But I do play favorites occasionally. ( yeah, that one. )

Look, this is the scene that made me start watching the Whoniverse as a whole. I had seen nothing, and then I saw this scene on YouTube, and then I downloaded the first episode of new!Who and went for it in order to eventually see this in context. That is one damn important kiss in my fannish life.

Also, NNGK.


Day 21 - Favorite ship

DO WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN.

Picspams take a freaking long time. I'm going to be lazy now.

Torchwood - Jack/Ianto. Doctor Who - Doctor/Rose, Amy/Rory(/Doctor). West Wing - CJ/Danny. Firefly - Zoe/Wash. QAF UK - Vince/Stuart. X-Files - Mulder/Scully. All of these are ships for which I will trawl the internet for quite literally weeks or months on end, to varying degrees of success. Every show has its own ship, but those are the ones that are still my bulletproof kinks. I am not shippy to the exclusion of other pairings, nor to the point of hating any pairings involving just one of my ship. But yeah.


Day 22 - Favorite series finale

...hmm. Most series tend to drift by the end; there are very few series finales that leave me satisfied. I'm definitely not counting miniseries here, because they're written to be one complete story -- otherwise "Points" for Band of Brothers would be an automatic win.

Toss-up: "West Wing" ended VERY well, given how long the show ran; the final episode is a bit sentimental, but god knows it earned it. And I love love LOVE Josh in the Oval Office with Santos -- "What's next?" BIG SPARKLY HEARTS.

But also? Queer as Folk UK. Now there was one show Russell T Davies showed out with style. Everyone gets their own freaking awesome epilogue -- Hazel gets married (for tax reasons)! Bernard becomes a porn baron! Nathan becomes king of the world! -- and, most importantly: There are many rumours about Stuart and Vince -- all of them true. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

What I planned to do this evening: finish the last remaining scenes in my Big Bang fic. (Seriously, there are, like, three scenes I still haven't properly written. And I have failed to finish them ALL WEEK.)

What I did instead: TV MEME!

This is not a big picspam, but I couldn't resist. Shows: Band of Brothers - BSG - Doctor Who - Dollhouse - Firefly - HIMYM - QAF UK - Sports Night - Torchwood - True Blood - West Wing - X-Files.

Day 14 - Favorite male character

Even narrowing it down to one per show -- and not including ALL of the shows I like -- THIS WAS HARD.

( BOYS! )

So. Torchwood.

( cut on the off chance any speculation on the future of Torchwood is considered spoilery )

And on a TV-related note, shit, I've already fallen behind in the TV meme. But it's not like I've got a real deadline, so I'll just pick up where I left off:


Day 04 - Your favorite show ever

I AM PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE OF ANSWERING THIS QUESTION. Favorite to watch right now? Doctor Who. Favorite to participate in fandom (which, yes, has a lot to do with my enjoyment of a TV show)? Torchwood. Favorite to rewatch with new people a billion times? Firefly. Favorite comedy? Coupling. Favorite in that I think it's technically the best? West Wing.

But I'm going to interpret "favorite ever" as the show that I loved the longest, that still makes me giddy with nostalgic glee, that I can still happily revisit -- read fic, rewatch episodes, reread meta -- and it puts me in a sheer unadulterated happy place. The X-Files. I started watching it at age eleven, right in the middle of season 4; I devoured earlier seasons in reruns, dove into the internet to try to piece together the chronology of the mythology. It was my first fandom, my first fanfic to read and write, my first OTP (Mulder/Scully). I stuck through it all the way until the bitter end (and, yeah, the last couple of seasons were kind of shit, but I still loved it unconditionally). That show, more than anything else, shaped the person I am today. It gave me Dana Scully, a short, beautiful, fiercely intelligent, deeply loyal, ass-kicking female role model. And oh, god, even with cheesy 90s effects and the ridiculously convoluted mytharc and the inevitable downward spiral, I still love it to bits.



The truth is out there, dammit.

Guys! laurab1 made the most gorgeous cover art for my Jack fic, The Myth of Fingerprints. Seriously, it's so lovely. Thank you, Laura!

...yeah, that's all I've got. I'm really, really tired. Tonight is my last evening off before we go into tech, and the show opens next week. Which is great and all, but there is a grievous lack of sleep in my life lately. I'm probably going to crash by 9pm. And that's okay.

I've been rewatching a lot of S1 Torchwood, for the first time -- actually, most episodes of the show as a whole, I'd only watched once up until quite recently. (Ironic, I guess, that I've reread a lot of my favorite TW fics a hell of a lot more often than I've rewatched my favorite episodes.) But anyway. Tonight it was "They Keep Killing Suzie", and oh MAN, that last scene is way more ominous and foreshadowy if you take into account the fact that Ianto was originally supposed to get the zombie plotline instead of Owen. That was a bit creepifying.

( a dollop of Jack/Ianto meta while we're at it, because it's THAT scene )

( and some fic blather )

Man, it's nice to get a day entirely to myself every now and then. I should do this again sometime. Ah, well.

Oh, my gosh, I can't get over how freaking young Ianto looks in the beginning of season one. LOOK AT THAT FACE. (See icon.) I'd forgotten how much people's facial features change and mature in their early-to-mid twenties. The rest of the team mostly looks the same -- okay, so Jack in season one of Doctor Who does look a bit younger than he does in CoE, but it's not particularly dramatic. But IANTO, holy shit, he really grew up over the past couple of years.

I badly want to ruffle his hair in "Everything Changes", you have no idea.

Um, yeah, renewed Torchwood kick shows no sign of letting up anytime soon, although I'm mainly focusing on finishing up my Merlin vid right now. But anyway. Oh, show.

(Icon keywords: ianto looks so goddamn young. SERIOUSLY. LOOK AT HIM.)

Oh, fandom.

Exhibit A: Sherlock Holmes trailer. I mainlined the Holmes stories last summer on my Italy trip, so this is really excellent timing. Also, jesus christ, like I didn't ship Holmes/Watson hard enough ALREADY. *fans self*

Exhibit B: Dollhouse renewed, apparently. Excellent. Let's see if Whedon can push it past intriguing into full-blown awesomeness in its second season.

Exhibit C: finally downloaded and listened to "Lost Souls" radio play, which brought my Torchwood love back HARD. Good timing, given BigBang fic.

And I spent all weekend vidding instead of writing BigBang, which, okay, sorta fail on my part. The problem with vid bunnies is that they're IMPOSSIBLE to ignore. You know how irritating it is getting a song stuck in your head? Yeah, well, having a vid bunny is having one particular song stuck in your head on constant loop UNTIL YOU FINISH THE DAMN VID. Try ignoring that for a while without losing your mind.

Real life is kind of too anxiety-inducing right now to think about. OH LOOK SHINY FANDOM.

Did not plan on staying up until nearly 4am to finish watching Torchwood.

Did, in fact, stay up until nearly 4am to finish watching Torchwood.

( spoilers up to and including Exit Wounds )